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The legend of this map shows Mexican Gulf and Caribbean Sea as well as the oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. I think it is highly redundant, for these two seas are parts of Atlantic Ocean. In Mediterranean case, the boundry of the sea is well defined. The total area of Mexican Gulf and the Carribean Sea on the other is more or less arbitrary. So the light blue which shows these basins should be replaced by the green of the ocean. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Why did you decide not to work on South America!? It looks as if everything runs up towards the Amazon! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.114.39.227 (talk) 19:08, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, that wouldn't exactly be unrealistic- after all, the Amazon has the greatest discharge of all rivers in the world. --The Cowdestroyer (talk) 07:23, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Actually, unless one divides the Atlantic in 2 smaller units(North and South), South America will look exactly the way it appears on the map. Not true it wasn't "worked" on the article. The reason for this is that, if you divide the continent by ocean drainage, you get only 3 big chunks: 1) a straigh, narrow territory going all the way down from patagonia to Panama, where the water flows westwards and downwards, from the Andes to the Pacific; 2) North of the Andes and the Guiana Highlands, where the water flows to the Caribean Sea and 3) the South Pacific Drainage basin, which, throughout history has been the objective of both Brazilian and Argentinian strategists, eager to extend their country's borders as close as possible to an ideal natural watershed. Of course, the division you see on this map may be quite different from the one you learn in school, and that is so, basically because national geographists take into account not an entire ocean's drainage basin, but wheter the rivers that run through your country flow to your neighbour or to the ocean. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.24.178.25 (talk) 02:32, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Legend
Are the grey, linear areas that appear to divide the major drainage basins endotheric, or are they borders? --The Cowdestroyer (talk) 07:16, 2 January 2011 (UTC)